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  • Omni needs a urug

    Posted on January 30th, 2007 jasonadamyoung 2 comments

    I subscribe to the Omni Mouth for a number of reasons, one I really, really like OmniGraffle, and two, the blog might be the absolute best example of a small company blog I’ve ever seen. The writers of it have style, pizzaz, and it’s just fun. Really fun. Although, pictures of star-nosed moles really don’t belong in my news list.

    (they also have full feeds, so they get it).

    But I have to admit that not only did I groan when I saw “System Guru Opening” in the titles list in my unread Google Reader items, and I went so far as to give it a “Say it ain’t so Joe” (which is really odd, because I don’t think any of them are named Joe, but I digress), when I saw that the job was at OmniGroup

    Omni, guys, gals, pals, writers of great software. For good grief – don’t hire anyone at all that calls themselves a “guru”

    People that call themselves gurus, aren’t. Ever.

    However, for any system administration brethren that do Macintosh administration – you very likely want to check the job out. It sounds like a great job and a great place to work.(*)

    Additionally, they get serious mad props for being up front about throwing your word-formatted resumes away.

    But really, I know they say to put “guru” in the subject line – but for the sake of the whole profession, please don’t call yourself that. If they call you that – well you can’t help that, but you should shirk off and mumble incoherently. Or grunt. But do that after you are hired. I really don’t recommend mumbling incoherently in the interview. Been there, done that. I haven’t grunted though. Guffawed yes. Grunted no.

    (* I have zero association with OmniGroup and wouldn’t know any of them if I ever saw them. I just really like their software and their blog).

     

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    • Thanks for the feedback: we’ve now changed the title to System Ranger. As Wim explains…

      I think a better job title would be something like “systems ranger” — think old-West cowboy movie. The systems ranger roams the dusty server-room, righting misconfigurations and keeping an eye on the horizon for trouble approaching. When something goes wrong, he shows up, fixes it, and then rides off into the sunset with the cheers of the grateful townspeople (that’s us) following him. He’s an icon of trustworthiness and security and maintaining the status-quo. He helps with everything from fighting off the Black Hats to finding little Timmy’s lost puppy.


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